Ósló
Faroese
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse Ósló, from ǫ́ss áss (“god”) + ló (“meadow”). Cognate with Icelandic Ósló, Osló and Norwegian Oslo.
Proper noun
editÓsló f
- Oslo (the capital city of Norway; official name: Oslo)
Declension
editSingular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Ósló |
Accusative | Ósló |
Dative | Ósló |
Genitive | Óslóar |
Icelandic
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse Ósló, from ǫ́ss áss (“god”) + ló (“meadow”). Cognate with Faroese Ósló and Norwegian Oslo.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editÓsló f
- Oslo (the capital city of Norway)
Declension
editdeclension of Ósló
Derived terms
edit- Óslóarborg
- Óslóarbúi
- Óslóartré
- Óslóarháskóli (“University of Oslo”)
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editÓsló
- (nonstandard or dialectal, Setesdal) alternative form of Oslo
Old Norse
editAlternative forms
edit- Ásló — in West Norwegian sources
Etymology
editFrom older *Ǫ́sló where the ǫ́ is nasalised (whence the -n- in Dutch Ansloo), from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᛊᚢᛚᚨᚢᚺᚢ (*ansulauhu), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god, deity”) + *lauhō f (“clearing, meadow”). According to Sandnes and Stemshaug, the name has likely been around since before the first century.
Another theory is that the first element comes from áss (“hill, beam”), from Proto-Germanic *amsaz, but this is unlikely, due to the u-umlauted ǫ́ reflected in Ósló.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editÓsló f or n (genitive Óslóar or Óslós)
Derived terms
edit- Óslóarfjǫrðr (“the inner Oslofjord”)
- Óslóherað, Óslósherað
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Icelandic: Ósló, Osló
- Faroese: Ósló
- Norwegian: Oslo, Åslo
- → Danish: Opsloe, Opslo (as a Danicisation of the Norwegian name Oslo)
- → Dutch: Ansloo, Anslo
- → Low German: Anslo
- → Latin: Ansloa, Anslo, Ansloga, Asloa, Asloia, Osloa (Latinisations)
References
edit- Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN
- Alf Torp (1919) Nynorsk etymologisk ordbok, Kristiania: Aschehoug
- Jørn Sandnes, Ola Stemshaug (1997) Norsk stadnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
- Frode Korslund (1998) “Tolkningen av navnet Oslo”, in Maal og minne (in Norwegian Nynorsk), page 64
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- Faroese lemmas
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- fo:Oslo
- fo:Cities in Norway
- fo:National capitals
- fo:Places in Norway
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- Icelandic 2-syllable words
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- is:Oslo
- is:Cities in Norway
- is:National capitals
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- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse
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- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms spelled with Ó
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms spelled with ◌́
- Norwegian Nynorsk nonstandard terms
- Norwegian Nynorsk dialectal terms
- Setesdalsk Norwegian
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Norse terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ems-
- Old Norse terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk-
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Norse
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Norse
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- non:Oslo
- non:Cities in Norway
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